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New holistic application performance management products offer companies the chance for more proactive performance monitoring. Application performance is critical to the bottom line. Application Read more...

Electronic discovery is a firm's obligation to produce all of the documents or information in its possession--including documents that exist only in electronic form--in the event of initiated or Read more...

Conventional wisdom says that innovation comes from the top, but that's not always the case. Innovative leadership can come from the middle of the organization, and proactive CIOs look for these Read more...

Determining whether your company is getting enough value from its IT investments is one of the most difficult things to measure. Making sure that you're measuring accurately means taking advantage Read more...

Much has been written about a recent survey that indicated that CEOs are generally satisfied with the role that IT plays in the organization. But the study also noted that most CEOs don't expect Read more...

Telecommuting isn't going away; if anything, it is expected to increase significantly over the next several years. That means CIOs must find good strategies to deal with telecommuting employees by Read more...

Reaching the top rung isn't easy, but it's doable. Promote yourself by getting people's attention and demonstrating the benefits of your projects and plans to the business. Move out of your Read more...

Sometimes figuring out where security breaches are occurring or who is perpetrating them requires good, old-fashioned detective work. Technology can help, but there are times when intuition, Read more...

To be truly effective, CIOs must be proactive and business-savvy. That means refusing to make IT decisions in a vacuum, instead making them a part of an IT-business alignment process. Failure to Read more...

It's only recently that CEOs and CIOs have started communicating much at all. But as companies strive to integrate technology into the core of their business models, that's changing. Today, CIOs Read more...